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Books The Renaissance Reborn

COLIN MacINNES 'Historical novels' are denigrated by those for whom the term evokes mere cloak and dagger romances, possibly stemming from their great deviser Dumas, wherein the......

Poets At Home

JOHN HOLLOWAY Coleridge and Wordsworth in Somerset Berta Lawrence (David and Charles 50s) Shelley and his Circle, Vols III and IV edited by Kenneth Neill Cameron (otm 10 ens for......

Years Of Truth

WILLIAM HAYTER History of the Cold War: From the Korean War to the Present Andre Fontaine (Seeker and Warburg 5gns) The subtitle of this book is misleading. In fact its account......